Sunt lacrimae rerum: An exploration in meaning
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- David B. Wharton, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The half-line at Aeneid 2.462, sunt lacrimae rerum, although one of the most quoted and controversial utterances in Vergil's poem, has received little scrutiny from the point of view of linguistic semantics and pragmatics. This paper explores the interpretive options in these terms, and argues that their semantic and referential indeterminacy is both intentional and poetically productive, lending it an implicational richness most readers find attractive.
Sunt lacrimae rerum: An exploration in meaning
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- Publication
- Classical Journal 103:3 2008, pp. 259-79. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2008.0008
- Language: English
- Date: 2008
- Keywords
- semantics, Aenid, Vergil, sunt lacrimae rerum